Twenty Famous Fables

Title

en_US Twenty Famous Fables

en_US A Young World Library Book

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Adapted and told by Anne Webb

Creator

en_US Webb, Adapted

Contributor

en_US Haywood, Helen

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:42Z

en_US 2016-09

en_US 1974

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1974

Abstract

en_US I wondered why I had not come upon this book before. Well, I have come upon it! Nelson seems to have taken over or joined with Young World and republished "Fables for Little People" from 1972. Then it was "A Little People's Library Book," and now it is "A Young World Library Book." The T of C has disappeared and now Nelson does its printing not in Ipswich but in Exeter, at least for this book. As I wrote of the earlier book, here are twenty fables, each with two facing pages. The versions are careful, and the illustrations playful and charming. In LM, the lion is only tied to a tree; the mouse's task seems easier (9). SW is well told (14). The version of BC is clever: it does not specify the problem, but simply has an old and wise mouse ask "Which of us is going to hang the bell around the cat's neck?" (21). My favorites are the two illustrations for "The Old Lady and the Doctor" (24-25). Haywood's approach to the underlying character of the new wife is clever: paws, eyes, and ears are catlike (39). Some young artist doodled on 37.

Identifier

en_US 11017 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107745

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Nelson Young World

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.W433Tw 1974

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

Book, Whole